For me XMonad+Gnome has worked pretty well. There's a nice PPA[1] that gives you most of what you need then you load the Gnome compatibility options[2] in XMon

For me XMonad+Gnome has worked pretty well. There's a nice PPA[1] that gives you most of what you need then you load the Gnome compatibility options[2] in XMonad config file and everything works. Well, there is one annoyance in that there's some sort of race condition and I have to restart xmonad after everything is up (alt-q by default) if I want windows to avoid the task bar like they should. But that only an extra second when I reboot. [1]https://github.com/Gekkio/gnome-session-xmonad https://github.com/Gekkio/gnome-session-xmonad [2]http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.15/docs/XMonad-Config-Gnome.html http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.15/docs/...